European socialism isn't bad. But how does it work when you have such varied cultures like the US?
Outside of some existential threat like war, it doesn't seem at all possible for everyone in the US to start rowing in the same direction.
Outside of some existential threat like war, it doesn't seem at all possible for everyone in the US to start rowing in the same direction.
It would take a political miracle because of our thoroughly corrupted political system, but once it existed as an option, I have no doubt that trying to kill it would be political suicide. The problem is that our far right party is A-Ok with working class people going broke from healthcare costs, and poor people just dying, and our center-right party has pretty much adopted a platform of "We won't make things any worse".